Using Social Graphs to Visualize Political Factions

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A couple great articles from O’Reilly on using social graphs to visualize data. Andrew Odewahn revisits and older project in Visualizing the Senate social graph, revisited – OReilly Radar. The basic notion is to go through senate voting sessions with each senator as a node. When there is a pattern of frequently having similar votes a node is drawn. He does this over an number of different periods giving insight into the political climate. Definetly watch the video.